Posted on 11/27/2020 7:55:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A Starbucks barista has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the company because she says she was fired for not wearing an LGBT PRIDE t-shirt.
Starbucks claims that her suit is “without merit,” that the company does not require employees to wear any item of clothing other than their trademark green apron.
But the woman, Betsy Fresse who worked at Starbucks in Hoboken, N.J., says the reason that was given for her termination was “her comportment was not in compliance with Starbucks’ core values.”
Fresse’s trouble with the company began when she transferred to another store in New Jersey.
In June 2019, she and other staffers attended a meeting in the store manager’s office where, she claims, she saw a box of Starbucks Pride T-shirts on the floor by his desk. After the room cleared out, Fresse asked the manager if she would be required to wear the shirt during her shifts. According to Fresse, he said she would not.
But, per her suit, which was filed last week in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, she was contacted by Starbucks’ ethics and compliance helpline several weeks later regarding her request to be exempt from wearing the Pride shirt. She explained to the ethics and compliance representative that she did not want to war the Pride shirt “because her religious beliefs prevented her from doing so,” the suit states. Then, on Aug. 22, 2019, Fresse was notified she was being terminated because “her comportment was not in compliance with Starbucks’ core values.” According to her notice of separation, when she was handed a Pride shirt — which Starbucks maintains employees were not required to wear — Fresse said she didn’t want to wear it and that her co-workers “need Jesus.”
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This Thanksgiving, I'm very thankful that they wear more than that!
Reading between the lines, it sounds like she might not have been an easy employee to work with.
Remember back to the good old days when all the Lavender Mafia wanted was to have homosexual “partnerships” to be recognized so that they could have family hospital visits? Yeah. Good times.
It is possible if she had kept her mouth shut and refused to wear it they wouldn’t have fired her.
Lambasting other workers with You need Jesus may be what officially did her in.
The need Jesus bit will be big part of the case.
Dykes rule........
When dykes rule, end dyke rule
“You know the Nazis had flair they made the Jews wear...”
btw,in skimming the info I didnt see where she told them they needed Jesus. Maybe she didn’t and is saying it later. If she did say it to them...then it is a problem
I'm still chuckling from your post. I need to re-watch Office Space.
Re: LGBT PRIDE
Why would anyone be proud to have a mental illness?
The Kinsey Scale
Militancy and not keeping your private thoughts to yourself is where I have a problem.
...however, there is a spectrum which needs to be respected.
It’s just as God made them, like it or not.
I can accept it with no issue until you put a bullhorn in my face.
Flair was my first thought.
Watched that with the wife Wednesday. LOL
Well at least I didn’t sleep with Lundberg!!
It was the OTHER Lumburgh.
What have the perverts got to be PROUD about, anyway?
“Oh.”
LOLOLOL
I am NOT taking Starbucks side...but as a former manager:
People are fired for insubordination.
The T shirt was the secondary cause.
RE: What have the perverts got to be PROUD about, anyway?
In today’s world, it is not considered a perversity anymore. Next stop in the normalization process — Pedophilia.
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